Wagon-spring



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S. G.=HILL WAGON SPRING.

No. 252,035. Patented Jan. "10, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

SAMUEL GraHILL, OF MUSGATINE, IOWA.

WAGON-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,035, dated January 10, 1882.

Application tiled March '22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. HILL, a resident of the city of Muscatine, county of Muscatine, and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and usel'ul Improvement in Applying Springs to Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and correct description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makinga part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class wherein the bodies of vehicles are hung by means of supports or standards surrounded by spiral springs.

Myimprovement consists in the holsters having their ends projecting beyond the sides of the vehicle-body, and having fitted thereon or therein vertical standards or posts surrounded by spiral springs, in combination with transverse straps bolted or otherwise secured to the bottom ofthevehicle, with projectingends passing over the standards or posts of the holsters.

My improvement also consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts,

hereinafter more fully set forth.

On the drawings, Figure l represents aside elevation of a Wagon, the. nearest wheels ot' which are omitted in order` the better to exhibit the nature of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the line-x x of` Fig. I. Fig. 3 is a similar view, with the spring-standards in inverted positions; and Fig. 4. shows the application of a double instead of a single set ot' springs.

Arepresentsawagonbody; BB', the wheels; C C', the axles, and D D the holsters thereof. The ends of the latter are made to project beyond the sides ot' the wagon-body, and .have fitted thereon or therein vertical spring-standards e e', &c. The upper ends ot' these standards pass through or are secured to the ends ot' straps ff', which are bolted or otherwise secured across the bottom of the wagon-body on lines immediately above the axles.

The standards e are each encircled by a spiral spring, g, and these springs sustain the whole weight of the Wagon-body. As the latter is being loaded the springs become com- (Model.)

pressed, while `at thev same time the free ends of the standards are forced through the perforations that are made in the strap ends. An

extra heavy load will compress the springs to lside standards through the same, as shown.

Itwill also be seen by reference to Fig. 2 ot' the drawings that the lower ends of the standards care formed with sockets, which are passed over the ends of the bolster D, so as to connect the parts more readily.

Havingdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is .Y

l. In means for hanging the bodies of vehicles, the combination of the holsters having their ends projecting beyond the sides of the vehicle-body, and having fitted thereon vertical standards or posts surrounded by spiral springs, and the transverse straps with shouldering-extensions h, bolted'to the bottom of the vehicle, with its projecting en ds ittin g over the standards or posts ot the bolster, substantially as described.y

2. In means for hanging the bodies of vehicles, the combination of the bolsters D D with vertical standards e and coil-springs g, the transverse straps f f f, with shouldering-extensions ZL, and the cross-pieces h', iitted on the holsters, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name. j

` SAMUEL Gr. HILL. Witnesses:

GEO. MITTENBURGH, THos. L. Ross. 

